Education for Insurgency
Subtitle: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781849351997
Subjects: Education, united states; Education, social aspects
Description: "Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. That means, at the very least, seeing each student's rebellion not as violation, but as communication. Jay Gillen writes with passion and compassion about the daily lives of poor students trapped in institutions that dismiss and degrade them. In the spirit of Paulo Freire, and using the historical models of slave rebellions and Civil Rights struggles as guides, Gillen explains what sort of insurgency is needed and how to create it: the tools and techniques required to build social, intellectual, and political power."--Page 4 of cover.